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What doth it profit a man to denounce the Pope and lose his soul? Or refuse the request of his traditional priest to mask up, thereby gifting the local modernist bishop what he desires: the "beheading" of the local Mass on a silver platter?
There are innumerable examples of such sinful insanity that is infecting more and more "traditional" Catholics. From whence does it come? Pride. Pride is a killer. As Archbishop Lenga recently noted, we hear about people declaring for sedevacantism, for the SSPX, for the Jesuits, for this or that: but declaring for Our Lord Jesus Christ he asks? They are silent.
Recently a comment was sent to this blog in which, it was claimed the Pope was "a demon". Another comment referred to the Pope as "public enemy number one". Vox Cantoris was told the other day that he was "demonic". How does this build up the Mystical Body of Christ? How does this edify our families and friends in the Faith? How does this lead a searcher for the truth who is visiting the blog to consider converting when all he reads is hate and rage, despicable name calling? Who in their right mind would in the Catholic Church when they read these mad ravings?
And how does this spewing out if sin strengthen our prayer life? What comes of attacking, slandering, defaming brothers and sisters in Christ? Where is our charity? "And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold". (Matthew 24:12). There is laughter in Hell when Satan has convinced "traditional" Catholics that they are serving God when in fact they are doing the devil's work.
We need a return to pure religion. The Catholic Faith is NOT a political party. In fact, the most political "College of Cardinals" in Our Lord's Day, the Sanhedrin, organized His murder and even declared the pagan "god", Caesar their "god". For those sad men the end was not a good one when they had to stand before Christ at Judgment. They had lost the faith for they had already grown "cold" and had no "charity". Compare them to the repentant good thief or the devoted humility of the saintly daughters of Jerusalem.
We traditional Catholics need to seriously examine ourselves before God. Are we devoting one, two, three and more hours a day on the internet searching for the latest papal scandal and gossip? Are we busily posting in comboxes protestant-inspired declarations that the Pope of Rome is not the Pope? Are we disobeying our priest who requests us to mask up at Mass so the modernist bishop is not given exactly what he wants? A pretext to suppress the Mass? In short: are WE DOING THE DEVIL'S WORK?
I have a few suggestions for those who spend hours on social media denouncing, raging, fuming: why not devote half your energy to picketing the local abortion mill? Praying the Rosary outside the local bishop's Office for his conversion? Volunteering time visiting the shut-ins? Doing grocery shopping for the elderly?
We might be able to fool a few people by turning up at Mass every Sunday; even daily recitation (notice, I do NOT say praying) of the Rosary, novenas, following Ember Days etc. Did not the Pharisees do the same? But we cannot fool God. We might be able to mask our sinful life with exterior manifestations of "piety" but interiorly we are "sounding brass..." (c.f. 1 Cor 13:1).
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Dear Catholic friends, in this time of ever increasing confusion we need to draw closer to Christ and His Mother and NOT turn our backs on them. For the hierarchy, if we believe them confused, wayward, cowardly, even some evil (as I do on all those descriptors) we must take very careful care that our response does not place us on the road that they might be travelling. Let us, whatever happens, NEVER, leave the VISIBLE Church of Christ for some synagogue of Satan. Heresy and schism are a sad response to - you guessed it: heresy and schism.
Advent will soon be upon us:let us repent of our sins, and engage in good works. For as St. James wrote "faith without good works is dead". Let us look in the spiritual mirror and see what we find looking back at us. Is it faith and good works, always striving, always improving. Or, is it a satanic caricature of faith with no good works?
Vox Cantoris is confused about masks. He says to wear one so long as Caesar might therefore allow for the Mass, as though we haven't yet learned that you can not compromise with modernists and Marxists in regard to the faith and liturgy. A commentator pointed to his confusion as an affect of "diabolical disorientation." Vox Cantoris proceeded to blow a gasket. I agree with the commentator.
ReplyDeleteThis a reasonable post and I agree we have to use charity when dealing with others. Although, Vox Cantoris should take your advice as well. It's not right for someone to call him demonic, however, he has no problem demeaning people who disagree with him. And on the mask, it is no longer about health and has become a symbol for the COVID cult. So, no it is not pride to not wear a mask at Mass, as we are called to worship Jesus Christ, not some virus.
ReplyDeleteYou would rather have no Mass than put on a mask to save the Mass from persecutors and give poor Father a break. I'm confused? I've blown a gasket? Who comes on other blogs to complain about another blogger. Do you think this is the Eponymous Flower or something? If you think a mask is a form of worship, you're a fool. If you think it is the sign of the Antichrist, you've made it so.
ReplyDeleteDid either of you read the Epistle and Gospel yesterday?
The issue is NOT Vox Cantoris. The issue is giving the local modernist bishop a golden opportunity to shut down the Mass which will NEVER return. Any Catholic who undertakes knowingly undertakes activity that endangers the shutting down of the Mass is DOING the work of Satan.
ReplyDeleteThe two comments prior to Vox's actually make the point of his post and mine. However NO more comments will be UNLESS the address the issue at hand: ensuring the safety of the Mass during these dangerous times.
I understand that as of this writing at least three Latin Masses have been suppressed - NEVER to return - due to the activity of "traditional" Catholics. Let us be very clear: these Masses were NOT suppressed by the Pope - but by the local Ordinary working in a perverted union with so-called "traditional" Catholics.